The Roxburghe ballads . lusion to his flight, after Sec. Windebanks, Dec, 1640. 2nd, the woman with fan, as in vi. 685, left. 3rd, a new cut of a damsel sleeping on her bed, while Cupid shows a vision of an armed warrior. Date of first issue, probably circu 1654.] *#* The tune-name appears to be merely a variation of the first line : we know none resembling it: except the Drollery, She lay all naked in her bed. Seeing that Laurence Price wrote this Maidens Dream, and sympathized with her in the disappointment (as Madame Aphra Behn, and also John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, still later expatiate
The Roxburghe ballads . lusion to his flight, after Sec. Windebanks, Dec, 1640. 2nd, the woman with fan, as in vi. 685, left. 3rd, a new cut of a damsel sleeping on her bed, while Cupid shows a vision of an armed warrior. Date of first issue, probably circu 1654.] *#* The tune-name appears to be merely a variation of the first line : we know none resembling it: except the Drollery, She lay all naked in her bed. Seeing that Laurence Price wrote this Maidens Dream, and sympathized with her in the disappointment (as Madame Aphra Behn, and also John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, still later expatiated on the same theme, with more warmth than delicacy), it is not improbable that he had designed as a sort of sequel, although to a different tune, The Maids Revenge against Cupid and Venus. Little change of mood was necessary, before the girl who believed that Venus had punished her for resisting Love, could arm her tongue to proclaim revenge against the Goddess who had cheated her, and taken this unreal mockery hence !. [This woodcut belongs to pp. 81 and 191.] 104 [Roxburghe Collection, III. 222. Trobably Unique.] Cl)e 09attfs i&etoencje upon Cupid an& Venus. Shewing bow Cupid with bis dart Did wound and almost kill ber beart ; But sbe, recovering of ber pain, Revengd her self on him again: And how Vulcan the Black-Smith he did prove False to the Lass that did him love; And many other matters rare Within this ditty spoken of are. To the tune of, Loves Tyde, or, Flora Fareivel. [See p. 97.] YOu Maids & Widows all a row, my mind Ide have you for to know,How Cupid he hath conquered me, and crost me in my jolity ;I was a Damsel fair and bright, that was beloved of many a wight,But afterwards it made me rue, to see that men prove so untrue. When I was fifteen years of age, came Cupid in a fiery rage, And with his poysoned wounding dart, shot through my skin, and pierct my heart,And having toucht me to the quick, I thereupon fell dangerous sick,And ever since that time I rue to see
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